Guide to abbreviations

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Sometimes authors of text in a document in this wiki use an abbreviation without explaining what it means. The meaning of the abbreviation may be well-known to many readers yet unknown to some other readers.

The purpose of this page is to show the meanings of abbreviations which occur in pages of this wiki. Readers are asked not to include abbreviations which are not mentioned in at least one other page of the wiki. Readers are asked to maintain this as an alphabetically arranged list.


BIOS


CD means Compact Disc


CMOS


ECC


ESD


I/O means Input/Output


JFFS2 could be Journaled Flash File System version 2

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/JFFS2

Or is it Journalling Flash File System version 2

as http://sourceware.org/jffs2/jffs2-html/ is entitled JFFS : The Journalling Flash File System


NAND means Not AND


OLPC means One Laptop per Child

http://www.laptop.org/


PCI means peripheral component interconnect, a computer bus for attaching peripheral devices to a computer motherboard.


USB means Universal Serial Bus